Work Completed

• Attended Eclipse e4 webinar II on August 26, 2009, it is interesting to see some of the UI approaches being taken in e4 with more declarative UIs (e.g. toolkit model), decoupling the UI to make software in e4 more flexible. They are committed to Eclipse 3.x for 5+ years so there is time for transition. Many details in e4 still need to be fleshed out, they seem to only be at the tip of the iceberg right now.
• I spent more time learning the Eclipse build process and successfully built MAEviz on my desktop machine using Eclipse 3.4 and 3.4.2, I am working now on an error I am seeing when it builds on 3.5, the latest Eclipse. I also fixed our build server (the integration build was failing) and I upgraded the server to the latest version of Hudson. I noticed that our Hudson instance would not render properly in Firefox 3.5 using Linux. This issue was fixed with the upgrade to the latest version of Hudson.
• Sent email to Liang, a graduate student, regarding the MAEviz retrofit fragilities for bridges.
• Attended Processes meeting using Google Video Chat.
• I am following the Eclipse e4 dev mailing list so I can stay up to date on the latest discussions involving the new Eclipse platform.

Work Planned

• Continue learning the build process so I can upgrade our build server to use Eclipse 3.5 for building MAEviz.
• Attend Eclipse e4 Webinar II on August 26, 2009
• Attend Processes meeting via google chat.

Comments

This week went as planned. I will continue next week working on the build server with Eclipse 3.5.